New Books: February 2023
Business/Commerce
The Necessary Journey
What does a workplace utopia look like to you? This is the question Dr. Ella F. Washington asks companies, and often she hears about an […]
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The Brain-Friendly Workplace
We’re currently confronting a once-in-a-century opportunity to create a future of work that’s better for everyone. The corporate standard of extreme hours, sleep deprivation, and […]
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All Are Welcome: How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion that Delivers Results
Seize the competitive edge, increase innovation, and do right by people through building equity and diversity into your organizational DNA Studies continuously prove that companies […]
Read MoreCorrections/Criminal Justice
Tell Me Everything
Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse […]
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Beyond Innocence
A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that […]
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Manifesting Justice
Working with the Innocence Movement and Leigh Stubbs-a woman denied a fair trial largely due to her sexual orientation-a former federal prosecutor weaves Leigh’s story […]
Read MoreDisabilities
Disability Pride
A revealing portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of […]
Read MoreEducation
Visual Thinking
Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker. […]
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The Mindful Classroom
Engaging deliberative pedagogy, identity politics, and social justice, The Mindful Classroom offers mindfulness and movement practices to help facilitators guide difficult conversations. Useful in face-to-face […]
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Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us
An eye-opening look at how America’s elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich rich–making it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us […]
Read MoreEnvironment/Agriculture/Natural Resources
The Rescue Effect
As climate change continues to intensify, the outlook for life on Earth often seems bleak. Yet hope for the future can be found in the […]
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National Geographic Complete National Parks of the United States, 3rd Edition
Intensive on-the-ground research, 300 photos and 80 colorful maps complete the extraordinary package. Practical and comprehensive coverage includes engaging, individual park descriptions and brief history, […]
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Urban Foraging
Take a stroll to discover the ingredients for a wild apple tarte tatin. Turn the lilac bush found in a vacant lot into a delicious, […]
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The Devil Never Sleeps
An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, […]
Read MoreGeneral/Miscellaneous
DEI Deconstructed
The definitive comprehensive and foundational text for critically analyzing and applying actionable DEI techniques and strategies, written by one of LinkedIn’s most popular experts on […]
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In Search of Common Ground
Much has been written about our polarized media, social bubbles, and intractable biases. Journalist Bastian Berbner circled the world to find a different narrative. In […]
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Portable Magic
A history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium—the book. Stephen King once said that books are “a uniquely […]
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Communicate with Courage
Clear communication requires the courage to confront the psychological blocks that hold you back. Learn how to become a more fearless and peerless communicator. Raising […]
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Navigating the Metaverse
Like the Internet before it, the metaverse is a virtual space bringing people, companies, and products together in both digital and real environments to create […]
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How Do I Un-Remember This?
Think of the most embarrassing thing that’s every happened to you. Was it the time your high school cheer squad taunted you in front of […]
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The Future Is Analog
The Revenge of Analog lays out a case for a human future–not the false technological utopia we’ve been living. For years, consumers have been promised […]
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Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Academic library workers often make use of systemic, bureaucratic, political, collegial, and symbolic dimensions of organizational behavior to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, […]
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Requiem for the Massacre
With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one hundred years after the most infamous act […]
Read MoreHealth/Wellness/Medicine
What My Bones Know
By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a […]
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Fostering Wellness in the Workplace
Whether you’re an administrator or library leader concerned about the health and well-being of your team, or a library worker excited to launch a health […]
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The Long COVID Survival Guide
The first patient-to-patient guide for people living with long COVID—with expert advice and an afterword by the leading research scientist After coming down with long […]
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Invisible Storm
In 2017, in President Obama’s final Oval Office interview, he was asked who gave him hope for the future of the country. Jason Kander was […]
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The Things We Love
Books, baseball cards, ceramic figurines, art, iPhones, clothing, cars, music, dolls, furniture, and even nature itself. If you’re like most people, at some point in […]
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The Hard Sell
John Kapoor had already amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he founded Insys Therapeutics. It was the early 2000s, a boom time for painkillers, […]
Read MoreHistory
In Defense of Witches
Witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both […]
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Proving Ground
Proving Ground is the untold, World War II-era story of the six American women who programmed the world’s first modern computer. After the end of […]
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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
A groundbreaking, revelatory history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War—a vision that inspired future presidents as […]
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The Last Campaign
H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and […]
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Civil War by Other Means
The defeat of the Confederacy should have ushered in a period of national renewal and reconstruction driven by Lincolns’ idea that a more perfect Union […]
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On This Day She
This book is a collection of inspiring stories about incredible women who made history but seldom received the acknowledgment they deserved, women of all colors, […]
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South to America
We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list […]
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Of Blood and Sweat
Clyde W. Ford uses the lives of individual Black men and women as a lens to explore the role they have played in creating American […]
Read MoreLaw/Government
Menstruation Matters
In Menstruation Matters, the authors explore the many ways that menstruation makes a difference in law and life in the United States. The book looks […]
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This Contested Land
One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii. This land is your […]
Read MoreManagement/Leadership
Compassionate Leadership
Leadership is hard. But how do you balance compassion for your people with effectiveness in getting the job done? A global pandemic, Depression-level unemployment, civil […]
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